Classes

For the fulfilment of the 10 ECTS requirements of the curriculum a number of specific classes in GIScience (in addition to the ‘DK GIScience seminars’) are organised, some with an extension to Geocomputation/Geoinformatics. The most recent version is always available at PLUSonline.

Sem

Curriculum
category

Courses/classes

Obligatory

elective

Semester hours

ECTS credits

1.

C

Startup week: induction

o

1

1

A

GIScience Seminar I

o

1

2

B

Class: Fundamentals in spatial thinking and representation

One of these

Choices*

2

3

B

Class: Data methods, software design

2

3

2.

A

GIScience Seminar II

o

1

2

C

DK GIScience Thesis development workshops

o

1

1

B

Class: Process modelling (agent based, cellular automata …)

E

2

3

B

Class: Scientific Methods, Research Design and Scientific Writing

o

2

3

B

Class: Numerical modelling

E

2

3

3.

 

A

GScience Seminar III

o

1

2

B

Class: methods in contextualisation and HCI research

E

2

3

C

DK GIScience Symposium

o

1

1

B

Class: Advanced remote sensing and GIScience: OBIA

E

2

3

B

Class: Statistics, data mining

E

2

3

4

**

foreseen for international stay

 

5.

A

GIScience Seminar IV

o

1

2

C

DK GIScience Symposium

o

1

1

B

Class: 3D data representation

E

2

2

6.

A

GIScience Seminar V

o

2

2

B

Class: Uncertainty, sensitivity and fuzzy analysis

E

2

3

7.

A

GIScience Seminar VI

E*

1

2

B

Class: Advanced database concepts including noSQL databases

E

2

3

8.

A

GIScience Seminar VII (if needed)

E*

1

2